It also increased the price of its Family Plan in both territories. In Q4 last year, Apple Music announced that it was upping its standard monthly subscription price from USD $9.99 to $10.99 in the US, and GBP £9.99 to £10.99 in the UK. That said, it’s good to have another deep-pocketed competitor in the streaming music space, since it was starting to look like a two horse race with Spotify and aforementioned Apple Music.The widespread music subscription streaming price rise that labels and music publishers have long called for is finally, properly underway. Just like Apple, Amazon has an enormous number of credit cards on file (estimated at 300 million), but that doesn’t mean that a large percentage of them will automatically subscribe to a new offering, as we saw with Apple Music. Using the service (or any other service for that matter) without a user interface is a completely different experience than with one. Is that worth the extra money per month? It will be interesting to see just how many of the estimated 60 million Prime members say, “Yes it is!”Īs stated before, the much lower $3.99 monthly price for Echo owners has a built in “gotcha” in that the service only works on that device, so once again, you have to wonder how many users will actually upgrade to the full service. There are a lot more songs available (Amazon will only say it's in the “tens of millions” as compared to Prime Music’s two million), there are curated playlists, behind-the-scenes artist commentaries, and a new app. To be fair, Amazon Music Unlimited is different from Prime Music in a number of ways.

And, as a Prime member, you already have Amazon’s Prime Music service available to you for free, so why would you want to pay the extra 8 bucks a month for something that you’ve already paid for?

You have to be an Amazon Prime member in order to have access to the $7.99 price, and this is after you’ve already paid $99 for your Amazon Prime subscription for the year. The problem is that this price is really a mirage.

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